Broody hen help

[gtaus]

I see some good and bad advices in the video:
Good: mark the eggs you put under the broody.
Bad: move the broody apart from the eggs to another coop. (less risk if you put a box under her in the old situation and move the broody a few days later with box, and eggs together)
Good: a spacious room where the broody and the baby chicks can stay for the first days.
Good: provide water and chick crumble near to nest box.
Bad: put more chicks under her as she hatched. Difficult job to keep 12 chicks warm. Risk of not accepting.
Bad: put the hen in a coop with a steep ladder that can cause trouble for the young chicks. Its no problem to get down, but are they smart enough to climb up? You don’t want chicks downstairs getting cold while mama is upstairs with most of her chicks.
Good: check if there a no chicks downstairs.

I have no personal experience with hatching chicks with a broody hen, which is why I linked the YouTube video so OP had a start on the subject. Appreciate your comments on the points in this video. Hope it helps the OP. I learn a lot from YouTube videos, but I have also learned that some things people say may or may not be best practice. It's always great to get feedback from people with personal experience.

 

[aart]

I have no personal experience with hatching chicks with a broody hen, which is why I linked the YouTube video so OP had a start on the subject. Appreciate your comments on the points in this video. Hope it helps the OP. I learn a lot from YouTube videos, but I have also learned that some things people say may or may not be best practice. It's always great to get feedback from people with personal experience.

With no experience, it's hard to assess whether a video is worth sharing

 

[gtaus]

With no experience, it's hard to assess whether a video is worth sharing

OK. I watch lots of YouTube videos on topics I am interested in but don't have personal experience. I share some videos that I find interesting. For me, it's all a process of learning. I hope the OP was able to get some helpful information from the responses to this thread and maybe something in the YouTube video I linked makes sense to them.

At the time I responded to this thread, there were 0 responses from the BYC community, so I tried to help OP in any way I could to get things started. I am glad to see that other people with lots of personal experience on this topic have now responded.

If the YouTube video I linked to is not any good, let me know and I'll delete that post. It did have over 49,000 views with 600+ likes and only 24 thumbs down. So I take that as a pretty positive video considering how fast people on YouTube will hit the thumbs down on bad or inaccurate videos.

 

[Hope hen]

have they hatched yet?

 

[Hope hen]

Yes! 5 so far 4 to go. I did have to intervene a little.. she decided to poo in the nest.. and I couldn’t see them sitting in that. She took to it well tho and went right back to the last 4 eggs.. hopefully I was gentle enough with them :/

 

[Perris]

aaawwww! so cute!